Huntsville gazette., 1887-05-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


shops have been located at Atchison by
Geneyal Manager Clarke. They are to be
built on the western limits of the city, and
will be the central shops of the Missouri
Pacific system for Kansas.
TREASURER JoRDoN has returned to
and has resumed his duties.
VIM. DUFF HAYNIE, of Illinois, has been
chief clerk to the First Assist
ant Postmaster-General. vice Jas. H.
Marr, deceased. Mr.. Haynie has per-
formed the duties of the position for a
year or more.
NEWS from the Afghan frontier is of
rather disquieting nature for British in
terests in that quarter, and the latter
government is discussing the situation.
JOHN GIBBS and Abe McCrea got into
fight at Rosebury station, Pa, on the 31th,
and both were fatally injured.
Miss ALICE COBB, daughter Of Alvin
Cobb, twenty-four years of age, COM
mitted suicide at Portland, Me-, on the
morning of the 30th, shooting herself
through the heart.
IHE plate mill department of the Key
stone Iron Works at Reading Pa, was shut
down on the Both. for an indefinite period,
throwing large number of men out of
The Interstate Commerce
law did it.
RECENT heavy rains in New England
have produced the greatest freshets
known in nearly twenty years. All the
rivers are out of bounds, and much dam
age to property is reported.
SERIOUS pension frauds have recently
been discovered in England, and an OFF,
cial inquiry has been ordered.
THE Swiss village of Sils was almost
entirely destroyed by fire on the 3)th
EXPERTS in chirography are agreed that
the London Times Parnell letter was a
forgery.
MONTANA has declared quarantine
against cattle from Illinois, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Delaware, Virginia, Texas, Vermont and
the District of Columbia.
AN accident occurred on the Northern
Pacific railway on the Both by which w.
o. Breed, of Faribault, Mimi, was crushed
to death and seven others were seriou sly
injured.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY had two sharp
shocks of earthquake on the 1st.
ACTIVE preparations are going forward
at Washington for the National drill.
AL BAUER has resigned as umpire of the
American Baseball Ass sociation and John
G. Valentine succeeds him.
SENATOR VEST is reported as suggesting
that Mrs. Cleveland S wishes may inf1u-
ence the President to run for another
term.
IT is feared that the schooner Louie
O'Neill has gone to the bottom of Lake
Erie and that her crew of eight persons
are lost.
THERE is an enormous increase of emf
grants from Great Britain for Canada,
Australia and the United States.
Ex-Governor CHARLES MAY of Michi-
gan addressed the American Temperance
Union at Chickering Hall, New York, on
the 1st.
Hon. JAMES SHELDON, ex-chief-justice of
the Superior Court of Buffalo, N, Y, died
on the 1st Of cerebro-spinal mening gifts,
aged siXty-siX years.
KING HUMBERT unvailed statue OF
Victor Emanuel in Venice Oh the ISL
There were thousands of spectators pres
ent, and much enthusiasm was dislayed.
THIRTY-EIGH pedestrians started i
six days. go-as- you please at Philadelphia
on the night of the 30 h. Among them
were Vint, Noremac, Hughes and Hart.
The prizes aggre gate about S6, 600.
THE accounts OF the British colonial ex-
hibltion have been published and show
balance of $l56, ,175. 1t is proposed to
transfer S100,0O0 of this to the Imperial
Institute fund, and with the remainder
settle the deficit of the Inventions exhl-
bition and form reserve fund.
DIR. T. s. DABNEY, of New Orleans,
whose dismissal from q clerkshlp IN the
Pension Office was attempted by certain
Grand Army posts throughout the coun-
try, on account, it was said, OF his having
been a Confe lerate guard at Anderson
vile prison during the var, has rendered
his resignation to Commissioner Black, to
take effect June 80.
JAY AND LEE MOORE. aged fourteen and
twelve years. and Ira and BERTHE Hotch-
kiss. aged eleven and eight, sons Of we'll
to-do farmers of South Valley, Catta-
raugus County, N. Y, went fishing on the
1st along the Allegheny river. When
about rod from the shore the current
capsized the boat and all four were
drowned.
WITHIN a short time the United States
steamer Galena, Commander Chester, is
expected to arrive at Washington, having
on board the pre- historic statue secured
from Easter Island by the Mohican, and
but recently transferred to the Galena at
Aspinwall, This piece of work, by an un-
known race, is destined for the Smith
sonian Institute.
The Sunday law is being strictly en-
forced at Washington.
A STEAMBOAT boiler exploded at Pitts
burgh. Pa, on the 2j, and three men were
killed.
GERMAN officials deny that state OF
siege for Alsace Lorraine IS contemplated
SCHNAEBELEs insists that his arrest
was made by German officers on French
soil.
THE Queen of the Hawaiian Islands
arrived in Chicago on the 2d and pro-
ceeded on her journey to Washington and
Europe.
RossINfs remains were disinterred at
Paris on the 1st, and were removed to
Florence Italy, on the "a.
REPORTS from Chill indicate that cholera
is decreasing. Great poverty exists and
many suicides, because thereof, are re-
corded.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
designated Chicago as central reserve
city under the provisions OF the act passed
at the last session of Congress.
GENERAL GANETsLY. governor OF the
Fortress of st. Petersburg, who became
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